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Title: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 27, 2010, 04:36:52 PM
wishlist for christmas ready yet ?

i just made mine - so i have been a good boy this year and i think there should be no problem for the christ child to bring these little toys... :angel: :angel:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 27, 2010, 06:16:13 PM

I want a orrory made of Josh Simpson planets......  :sm:

and an Alister Malcolm "Platinum" vase engraved by Sue Burke with dragons to compliment the shapes of the fabulous inclusions.....  :sm:  :sm:

and a big viking boat chandelier, like the ones in the Murano hotel in Tacoma....  :sm: :sm: :sm:

But the Alison Kinnaird hurricane lamp in my local antique centre woud do. It's a very good price for her work, and it's fabby - it looks all pretty-pretty flowery, but there are skulls and snakes and fangs and copulating couples all hidden in it - and we can't even afford that.  :cry:

As usual, I won't get anything..... nothing to do with not believeing in such superstitious/supernatural stuff.
Nothing wrong with having some sort of yuletide "something" to give a break in the middle of long, dark, cold winters.

(apart from the goodie bag my wee friend always gives us. She puts all sorts of useful things in it, such as a pad for writing shopping lists, with a pen and holder for it, and a magnet on the back, so it's always handy, stuck on the boiler, and some non-alcoholic chocolates for me... and liqueur chocolates for Michael.)
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 27, 2010, 06:22:58 PM
be a good girl and all your wishes will come true ! :X:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Paul S. on October 27, 2010, 06:48:23 PM
nah.........they wouldn't make you really happy Thomas.......better that you give them to me......merry old St. Nicholas and I have this thing going together.......... I put toast out for his Reindeer (or is that Father Christmas) :24:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 27, 2010, 06:49:26 PM
 >:D I'm so much better when I'm being bad, Thomas!
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 27, 2010, 06:58:27 PM
there are good and bad girls - i heard that the bad are much more interesting .... :sm:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 27, 2010, 07:02:06 PM
nah.........they wouldn't make you really happy Thomas.......better that you give them to me......merry old St. Nicholas and I have this thing going together.......... I put toast out for his Reindeer (or is that Father Christmas) :24:

lets make fifty fifty - and give me one reeindeer :-)
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Ivo on October 27, 2010, 07:13:41 PM
. I put toast out for his Reindeer

but traditionally it goes with potato puree....
http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/7_4.htm
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 27, 2010, 07:24:50 PM
looks delicious !!! :or:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Cathy B on October 27, 2010, 10:27:36 PM
Hi Thomas,

Are these your pictures? The board policy is to not allow posting of other people's images without the permission of the owner, so that we avoid the quagmire of various international copyright laws. If they're not your photographs, could you please ask the owner whether they're happy for you to use them? Otherwise, it's best to just post the link to the original and we'll remove just the images.

Thanks for that!
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Frank on October 28, 2010, 01:14:31 AM
I'll settle for peace.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: jinxi on October 28, 2010, 10:18:34 AM
This:-

http://www.olnickspanu.com/Collection/Chron/041.00_562.html

...... and ...... an amusing and attentive 'toy boy'!

Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Anik R on October 28, 2010, 10:37:20 AM
...... and ...... an amusing and attentive 'toy boy'!

Veronica, did you really mean a 'toy boy'  :spls:  or a boy toy?   ;D


I'd be perfectly happy and satisfied with this:  http://www.fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/resultsLotDetails.asp?lotsID=60507&menuItemOn=2&salesID=96&hasImage=1   :angel:

Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 28, 2010, 11:14:41 AM
Toy boy is the British way of meaning boy toy, apparently.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Anik R on October 28, 2010, 11:25:14 AM
Ahhhh...  and there I was, having an ever-so-slightly-perverted thought.  :pb:

Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: jinxi on October 28, 2010, 12:02:12 PM
Very nice piece of glass Anik!  Now I am lost ................... could someone email me an explanation please!

Veronica
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Anik R on October 28, 2010, 12:10:30 PM
Your email address is hidden, Veronica.

I was just being silly and vulgar-minded with the toy boy bit...  I'm sure you don't want to hear my explanation.   :spls:   (But I honestly did not know that toyboy means the same as boytoy  :angel:)
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: colink on October 28, 2010, 01:29:39 PM
MMMMMM let me see, maybe a nice piece of Northwood glass now that would be good. :thup: :thup:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: oldglassman on October 28, 2010, 02:06:13 PM
 :hiclp: look what Santa brought me a while ago ,shows i am not completely entrenched in the 17th and 18th c, I must have been a very good boy :angel:

cheers ,
            Peter.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: jinxi on October 28, 2010, 02:28:33 PM
You must write the best letters Peter!
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 28, 2010, 02:35:20 PM
please jinxi ! write a letter for me too - maybe my english was too bad so santa couldn´t read it ..
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: TxSilver on October 28, 2010, 02:35:27 PM
I would be happy with this. http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=2650
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 28, 2010, 02:37:55 PM
dear santa !

you know i do collect claret jugs - can i please get this one ??


http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/10/07/article-0-02EEB73D00000578-993_233x506_popup.jpg


so many thx , your little thomas
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: oldglassman on October 28, 2010, 02:54:12 PM
 :sun: maybe if the wish lists were a little more specific, results may come , this 1 is only 3 1/2 cm tall and took up very little space in Santa's sack  ;D

cheers ,
            Peter.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: jinxi on October 28, 2010, 02:57:23 PM
Two exquisite pieces Peter!
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Paul S. on October 28, 2010, 03:08:32 PM
Thomas - where does this gem of a 'jug' reside............Corning,... V & A....Vatican.....St. Petersburg......The Getty...............wherever it is, I just know they don't appreciate it as much as you would.  ;)    Pity I don't believe in fairies.........anyway, I think all this talk of aged men in long white beards bringing good things is utterly, utterly stupid......and grown men/wimmin to boot.........you'd never catch me talking like that.   Mind you I could sit on his knee, and he could put his arm around me and comfort me................then I might beleive......sounds a bit like a sob sister....................someone who sits on you knee, cries, and make it hard for you :wsh:         
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 28, 2010, 03:16:23 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3153856/Crystal-jug-valued-at-100-sells-for-3.2-million.html
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 28, 2010, 03:19:32 PM
its on MY list already  :cry:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: oldglassman on October 28, 2010, 03:35:35 PM
Yes Yes Thomas  we know it is on your list :cry: , and i am sure we would all let you have it if possible , but the question was, in the post above,

where does this gem of a 'jug' reside............Corning,... V & A....Vatican.....St. Petersburg......The Getty...............wherever it is, I just know they don't appreciate it as much as you would ,

I remember when it first came up for auction, Hee hee it was all a bit funny really , with the auctioneer stopping the auction to ask if the bids were serious , around £100,000  I think ,reassured he carried on to the final £220.000 or so , then all H--- broke loose,for the auctioneers not to have done at least a little research before the sale seems mind boggling(what do they get commission for ?), it being described as late 19thc with metal and paste mounts !"!!!!!!, anyway as you can see from the article ,when all the dust had settled and many folks pacified, it was resold .

But to whom ?? and were??

Cheers ,
            Peter.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: claretjugcollector on October 28, 2010, 03:41:50 PM
i know what you mean - actually i wouldn´t have bought it for 220.000 or 100.000 BP ...if it would have been up for auction on ebay - surely it would realized it but maybe it would have brought a couple of thousand dollars not more,, i suppose

anyway - i heard that it is in arabic emirates now ! :ra:

but only till christmas because then .... :bat:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: johnphilip on October 28, 2010, 04:12:35 PM
Most toys that arrive at Christmas have duff batteries so get some spares in gals the shops will be closed . >:D
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Paul S. on October 28, 2010, 04:18:18 PM
oh, isn't he wicked.........but must admit that I use an electric razor as well ;)  and always handy to have some of those Prices candles in case of power failure.
Ah, yes, thanks Christine, now I remember which jug it is we are talking about  -  I remember we have spoken of this piece before, several times I think.
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 29, 2010, 04:31:25 PM
 >:D >:D >:D

I think I must have been a very good bad girl, (or M's suffering from guilt about having lots of holidays and leaving me at home)..... but too many things were getting to me, meeting Alison Kinnaird, Jindrich's posting of images of a Vladimir Klein exhibition reminding me of my eternal regret after not buying a bit I loved.... the hope that I might get a decent price for my decanter which may be rock-crystal cut....

But I now own the Alison Kinnaird piece.  :rah: :rah: :rah:

Pics later. Light isn't good just now, besides, I'm having trouble keeping my dribble off it!
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 29, 2010, 05:24:38 PM
Oh you have been a lucky girl. :clap: :clap: :clap:
Title: Re: wishlist for christmas..
Post by: Leni on October 29, 2010, 06:54:59 PM
>:D >:D >:D

I now own the Alison Kinnaird piece.  :rah: :rah: :rah:


Oh, you lucky, lucky girl!  (http://www.websmileys.com/sm/love/458.gif)  Soooo happy for you!   :kissy:

Can't wait to see the pictures!   :D